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Past Events: |
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Conference:
"Peripheries: Decentering Urban Theory" - February 5 - 7, 2009.
Program available here. |
February 5-7, 2009 |
Howard Room, Faculty Club |
| Mellon Colloquium: "Transnational Spaces, Transborder Places: The United States, Mexico, and Guatemala Borderlands" |
Friday, November 21, 2008, 12:00-2:00PM |
221 Stevens Hall |
"Closer to Home: Eating from Local Foodsheds"
This panel discussion will investigate the opportunities and challenges
of eating locally grown food from the perspectives of public health, food
access, school food service, and regional farmland vitality. Panelists will include Ann Cooper, Paula Jones, Jeremy Madsen, and Kimi Watkins-Tartt, with Jason Corburn as moderator.
More Information here.
The event is free and open to the public. RSVP requested at http://enviro.berkeley.edu/amr/foodsheds |
Thursday, November 20, 2008, 7:00-9:00PM |
112 Wurster Hall |
Symposium: "Bogotá: Lecciones de un Renacer."
Keynote address by former Bogotá mayor, Enrique Peñalosa and talks by Daniel Bermudez, Carolina Barco, Camilio Santamaria, Medellin Gerard Martin, Rachel Berney and UC faculty (co-sponsors) |
Friday and Saturday, October 2-4, 2008 |
Wurster Hall Auditorium and breakout rooms |
"Slow Food Nation Considered," a panel discussion with speakers Fred Kirschenmann, Raj Patel, Michael Pollan, and Vandana Shiva, moderated by Richard Walker:
UC Berkeley $10 general admission; free for UC students and staff with valid ID
Tickets sales: 510-642-9988 or www.calperf.berkeley.edu
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 7:00-9:00PM |
Wheeler Hall |
Lecture by Mark Hildebrand:
"Policy Choices and Slums"
View Flyer |
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 2:00-5:00PM |
214B Wurster Hall |
| Discussion with Robert Gottlieb, Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College, Los Angeles about his book, "Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City" |
Thursday, March 13, 2008, 2:00-5:00PM |
106 Wurster Hall |
| Roundtable with Dr. Annmarie Adams, McGill University, Montreal: "Architecture is Murder." |
Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 2:00PM |
316 Wurster Hall |
Roundtable with Dr. Kin Wai Michael Siu, Professor of Industrial and Environmental Design, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University: "Flexible Public Design and Changing Urban Needs." |
Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 2:00PM |
316 Wurster Hall |
| Lecture by Gordon Bonan,
Senior Scientist, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center
for Atmospheric Research: "Revisiting the Meteorologically Utopian
City in a Changing Climate" |
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 3:00-5:00PM |
106 Wurster Hall |
Demographic Change - A New Challenge for Urban and
Regional Development in Germany , speakers
from Kaiserslautern Technical University, Germany:
- Dr. Hans-Joerg Domhardt, "Dimensions
and Overview to Demographic Change."
- Prof. Dr. Gabi Troeger Weiß,
"Challenges for Regional Development."
- Prof. Dr. Annette Spellerberg,
"Consequences for Urban Development."
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Thursday, October 11, 2007, 4:00-5:00PM |
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall |
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Symposium:
"Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge: New Ruralism and Other Strategies for Sustainable Development"
Website here. |
April 5 - 6, 2007 |
College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley |
| Lecture by Jefferey Sellers,
Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Southern
California:
"The
Decentered State" |
Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 4:00PM-5:30PM |
104 Wurster Hall |
| Symposium:
"The Future of Shrinking Cities - Problems, Patterns and Strategies of
Urban Transformation in a Global Context" - Registration deadline:
December 30, 2006
Website here. |
February 8 -
9, 2007 |
International
House, UC Berkeley |
| Lecture by Maarten Hajer, Chair of
Public Policy and Political Science at the Universiteit van Amsterdam:
"Public Domain Strategies for Fragmented Cities - Reflections on the recent Urban Conflicts in Europe." |
Thursday, February 1, 2007, 4:00PM |
316 Wurster Hall |
| First Annual
Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture in Transportation by Professor Bent
Flyvbjerg, Aalborg University, Denmark:
"Survival of the Unfittest: Why the worst megaprojects get built and how better policy and planning can stop it" |
Tuesday,
October 17, 2006, 5:15PM |
Wurster Hall
Auditorium (Room 112) |
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Lecture by Paulo Custódio, Consultant and Founder, Logit Consultoria:
"Urban Transportation Trends in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and Bus
Rapid Transit (BRT)" |
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 4 - 5:30PM |
Wurster
Hall, Room 104 |
| Lecture by
Professor Yoshi Hayashi, Nagoya University, Japan:
"No-Regret Growth and Smart Shrinking: Matching Policy Instruments to
the Dynamics of Metropolitan Growth and Change" |
Tuesday,
September 12, 2006, 11 - 12:30PM |
Wurster Hall,
Room 305 |
| Lecture by Lee
Schipper, Director of Research, EMBARQ:
"MAKING URBAN TRANSPORT SUSTAINABLE: Notes from 4˝ Years on the Street
in Developing Cities in Asia and Latin America" |
Tuesday,
August 29, 2006, 4 - 5:00PM |
Wurster Hall,
Room 104 |
| Lecture by Professor Thomas Sieverts: "The Qualification of Urban Regions for "Soft" Regional Management Strategies" |
Monday, February 27, 2006, 7PM |
Wurster Hall Auditorium (Room 112) |
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The Global Metropolitan Studies Program Inaugural Event:
Lecture by Professor Sir Peter Hall, University College London: "The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe,"
Reception following lecture |
Monday, February 13, 2006, 5
- 6:30PM |
Wurster Hall Auditorium (Room 112) |
